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Thanksgiving Menu Planning Tips & Recipe Ideas

Family Balance Sheet

Thanksgiving dinner for my extended family is a shared experience. She also roasts the turkey and makes the gravy and the stuffing, but my aunts, uncles, and cousins all bring a dish and/or dessert to round out the meal. My mom hosts Thanksgiving. Nobody feels like they did all of the work and we all go home so stuffed and well fed.

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Weekend Wrap Up: Imagine Organic Gravy, Starbucks & More

For the Mommas

Here is a wrap up of the deals you may have missed! . Target: Oreo Mini Family Size Box as low as $1.25. Aunt Jemima Frozen Waffles Coupon – Save $1.00 & Weis Deal. We hope you had a fantastic weekend! Kroger: Duncan Hines Decadent Cake Mix $0.25. Shoprite: Free Equal Sweetener. Starbucks Coupon – Giant Deal Save $3.00

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Collectible Financial Paper

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Save those annual reports and dusty old stock certificates , they may be worth money! I come from a family with a few members that are avid collectors. My aunt and god-mother collected everything from spoons to stamps and dolls. He loves history, it is history from his own family and we are investors!

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Three Ways to Give to Charities Even If You Don’t Have Money

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Use that gift card combined with sales to buy some new clothes to give to a needy family. Or, donate to a family at Christmas. Redeem your points for an Amazon gift card and buy a toy for a child from a family in need. If you earn 2,699 Swagbucks, you can redeem it for a $25 Lands End gift card, for example.

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Avoid These Financial Mistakes with Your Kids

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Agree on the values and expectations you want your children to have in the area of personal finance and consistently teach and enforce those between the two of you (and clue in any significant others in your family such as aunts, uncles, grandparents and etc). Derailing them with sudden windfalls. Money is a tool. Money is neutral.

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Naomi’s Christmas: Restorative Aloneness And A Childhood Spent In Retail

For the Mommas

I went on buying trips to New York for the fancy ladies wear shop run by one aunt (they used to model the dresses at high end shops), learned the uniform business from another aunt, and was taught the basics of the Borscht Belt hospitality business by a great cousin. After dinner, Dad went off to Schul with his brothers.

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Christmas in July

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Making some decisions now about what you will and won’t do during the holidays will allow you to set up a budget as well as talk to any affected family members or friends (and even business contacts) so that you can set their expectations. Does this happen in your family too? Now we are again at square one – buying gifts for all.

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